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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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Is the Agent a Single Human Being?

Is the agent a single human being? What which object has agency? That's an interesting question. I think a way to think about an agent is that it's a controller with a setpoint generator. The notion of a controller comes from cybernetics and control theory. So there is an environment in which the agent is stomping. And you are influencing a little part of that agent.

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